Dazed & Confused

I got to get my hands dirty with Spring soon. Kdonald has been refactoring the rich client part, and has some interesting info here.

According to mmansoor Struts is beeing upgraded to root project at Apache. It has been some time since I followed Struts closely, and it will be interesting to see the directtion it takes. It is a great project but could benefit from adopting some of the newer concepts found in other frameworks.

Old link, but it’s interesting to read how people use Spring to simplify and reduce LOC for their apps. Read about Matt Raibles adventure with integrating Spring into AppFuse.

Yep. It’s here. Go fetch. Just two more to go before final release.

I’ve used the DAO pattern in earlier applications. In addition to make the database layer exchangable, I think it’s main benefit is clear separation from the business logic. Of course you could achieve that without the pattern, but DAO helps you separate correctly all the way. Tutotial here.

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This should be a great concert. Listening to it for the first time on the radio now. Of course it’s the day before I arrive in Oslo.

musicplasma.com

Hacknot article on project documentation. As always a bit too XP/AM hostile, but I totally agree. Doucmentation can’t be ignored. His experience probably is a bit more extreme than many others, but it’s no suprise story.

This describes some rather big problems with JSF in a JSP environment.